March Screenings with Kriti Film Club@Habitat and Epicentre

Kriti
Film Clubinvites you for
its March screenings. This month is marks solidarity with the International Women's Day and raises its voices to stop violence against women. We also share films that share the memories of the past across borders, and a film in solidarity with the struggle for Tibet. Do come and share this month of viewership and discussion on the
once heard and lost stories with the film makers and other members of the audience!

Please note that we are having same set of films screened at two different venues i.e., Epicentre, Gurgaon and Indian Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi. The table below provides the details of the dates and the venues.

Films

Screenings @Epicentre

(Epicentre, Apparel House, sector-44, Gurgaon, 122003)

Screenings @IHC

(Gulmohar Hall, IHC, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 110003)

Violence Reels

ØOne
Billion Rising

ØThe Lightning Testimonies

7:30 pm, 5th March, 2013

7:40 pm, 5thMarch, 2013

7:00 pm, 16th March, 2013

7:10 pm, 16th March, 2013

Memory
Reels

ØThe End
of Flight

ØDere-tun-Dilli

7:30 pm, 12th March, 2013

8:00 pm, 12th March, 2013

7:00 pm, 15th March, 2013

7:30 pm, 15th March, 2013

Tibet Reels

ØThe Sun
behind the Clouds

7:30 pm, 21st March, 2013

7:00 pm, 14th March, 2013

Synopsis of the Films

Violence Reels:

One Billion Rising

Eve Ensler & Ton Stroebel| 3 mins.| English|
2012

An inspiring music
video for the One Billion Rising campaign: women worldwide rising up and
against all kinds of violence.The Lightning TestimoniesAmar Kanwar|113 mins.| Several Languages with
English Subs.| 2007

This film reflects upon a history
of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through experiences of sexual violence.
As the film explores this violence, there emerge multiple submerged narratives,
sometimes in people, images and memories, and at other times in objects from
nature and everyday life that stand as silent but surviving witnesses. In all
narratives the body becomes central -as a site for honour, hatred and
humiliation and also for dignity and protest. Screening followed by discussion
with film makers and women activists.

Memory Reels:

The End of Flight

Tariq Theakekaraj| 30 mins|
English

Our country has seen riots, wars, murders, rapes
and even genocides, all of which have left behind millions of victims whose
wounds may never heal. The Partition of India and the Second World War forced
millions into political refuge, but today more than 60 years down the line
there are few to tell the tale. This film is a short series of firsthand
accounts of how they made their way into India against all odds.

Dere-Tun-DilliDivya Cowasji & Shilpa Gulati| 27 mins.|English|
2012Eighty four-year old Bhagwani Taneja recalls the
time when her entire community packed up their homes from Dera Ismail Khan, in
Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, and moved to Delhi during the
Partition. As she faces the camera, Bhagwani talks about the tough time she and
others from Dera faced while trying to build homes and new lives in a divided
nation. The community took their protest to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru's bungalow who greeted them warmly and lent his garden for them to stay a
few nights. In the film, the makers have attempted to capture the turmoil that
the Dera community faced during this period even as the trauma of time remains
lost to the current generation. Screening followed by discussion with Film
makers and some of the storytellers.

Tibet Reels:

The Sun Behind The CloudsRitu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam|
75 mins| 2009| EnglishThe film updates the struggle for Tibetan
independence, focusing upon the March 2008 demonstration against Chinese rule,
the largest ever since the 1959 take-over of that nation. The Dalai Lama,
living in exile in Northern India, is interviewed extensively and given the
opportunity to explicate his "middle way," a compromise position he
has to date been unsuccessful in getting the Chinese to accept.Supporters of Tibetan independence who are devoted
to the Dalai Lama, but who nonetheless feel "the middle way" is an
ineffective solution, appear in the film, detailing their more militant
position.

About us:

The Kriti Film Club is an
informal and independent educational initiative of a non-profit organization
and has been screening thought-provoking documentaries for debate, action,
entertainment and outreach among diverse audiences for the past twelve years.